Dave-in-Decatur

Sounds like you may be experiencing the new experimental(?) "home screen." You can get at your real one by finding widgets on the hamburger menu, I think.

Personally, I don't mind a cheery hello anywhere I can get it. But that feature does seem to wind a lot of people up.

Evernote always remembers the most recent window size and position for me.... except when it updates to a new version, and then it often plops itself in the middle of the screen at a smaller size. So I'm guessing you're seeing the result of an update.

This is very useful information, as my subscription is about to renew and I need to decide between continuing Professional or dropping to Personal. I'm feeling more Personal all the time.

On 4/21/2024 at 3:16 PM, KRLee52 said:

Thank you for the very accurate and useful reply, I am very appreciative of the help.

I know this will annoy a lot of people, but as an it professional who has used this for over 16 years the version that replaced V 6 ha been a huge disappointment. It is appreciated when something simple I took for granted for 13 years is still doable. I have to say that when this subscription runs out I will revert to 6 (I saved the old databases) and port whatever I create since I was forced to update to whatever the eventual Evernote replacement is. I am sure it works well for many people, I am just not one fo them.

Ken

Glad it was helpful. Just as a reminder to all who are missing the former functionality in the Windows app: this was not Evernote's doing; Microsoft apparently decided that in Windows 11 the system alone should be allowed to do screen grabs; or at least that Evernote should not be allowed to do so.

Thank you for dumping your thoughts on your fellow users. To actually let Evernote know: feedback@evernote.com.

Hi, and welcome to the forums. As noted previously in this thread, these are user to user spaces. To address Evernote directly: feedback@evernote.com; or https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/requests/new, and use the Feedback and feature requests button.

In Windows 10, the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+S brings up the Evernote screen grabber. Define the area by dragging the crosshairs with the mouse, and it will be captured. Watch for the "Converted to note" popup at bottom right letting you know that the capture to note is complete; click on the popup to open the note. The note will be titled Screen Capture - [date, time]. Don't know why the taskbar icon isn't used anymore, but the KB shortcut works well.

FYI, the complete list of shortcuts is here: https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/articles/209004807-Keyboard-shortcuts-in-Evernote-for-Windows.

Hi, and welcome to the forums. Are you using Windows 11? If I recall correctly from previous discussions here, Win11 simply took over the screengrab function, and neither the keyboard shortcut nor any other means to access it will work, in Evernote or in other apps. I believe some have suggested that it's possible to direct the result of the system screengrab to be saved automatically in a particular folder; and then that folder can be designated as an import folder in Evernote.

12 hours ago, PinkElephant said:

It requires one of the latest releases. The TOC option shows up in the blue + menu.

If not, a log out / quit app / restart / log in may help.

OK, haven't got it yet, but it's good to know where to look for it. Not in urgent need of it, so I'll wait till it appears.

10 hours ago, Cristiano478 said:

It's a little obvious to me that the current Evernote team likes to test things and make changes quickly and in large quantities. I agree that it would be better to have a stable version and another for testing but I don't see that happening at the moment. For those whose changes unfortunately hinder productivity, a new app may be the best option.

Does anyone know (preferably from personal experience) if Bending  Spoons takes this approach with its other apps? Do users of those apps also experience sudden changes to the user interface (and therefore to usability), the sudden presence of new features that are clearly unfinished, etc.? Or is this something they are trying out with Evernote specifically?

2 hours ago, justacat said:

Where can I find out more about how this new toc works?

I don't know if it has been fully implemented yet, but it was announced a week ago as "coming soon." See this thread, with various comments:

8 hours ago, mackid1993 said:

This may be a design choice:

 

I can buy that at the bottom of a note. But why all the added internal space between lines? More comfy, more ergonomic, blah blah. But quite a number of people are not looking for a cat experience with a note-taking app: something that is comfy and cute to look at it, and completely unresponsive to your wishes. We'd rather have a dog experience: faithful, obedient, loving, and loyal. It may even be homely; but it will go get your sheep when you tell it to.

Does it seem to you that they pay any attention to feedback on X?

On 4/18/2024 at 1:09 PM, agsteele said:

Remember that Files is a work in the earliest stages of development.  It is, I think, a response to the fact that many Evernote users work wqith file attachments more than notes.  The idea has been to develop something that will all the developers to see what is proving useful. So feedback is definitely going to have some influence. But if it really doesn't fly then I imagine Files could disappear as suddenly as it appeared.

@agsteele, I think you would know this: Is there still a beta testing program? I would think that that would be the logical venue for "work in the earliest stages of development," not a random group of increasingly mystified users. Hopefully it will have some purpose and function(s) someday, but in the meantime, seriously, isn't this what beta is for??

13 hours ago, janndk said:

Can be useful in some cases.

I'd be interested to know of a few, frankly.

2 hours ago, Feitz said:

Can't drag'n'drop attachments into a note. The dropped attachment simply disappears, although before the drop either the line indicating where the drop would take place or (in an empty note) the '+' sign appears, thus Evernote is aware of the intended drop. Hate to say but that worked in Legacy without issue.

Adding via cut/copy and paste seems to work. 

Latest Sonoma/ 10.84.3 mac

Ticket #3873669

Working for me in Windows 10. Sorry I can't offer anything useful.

Every. Single. Time. All they had to do was make it Alt+/. Or ^. Or |.

On 4/16/2024 at 1:08 PM, agsteele said:

My personal view is that this Files feature is a solution seeking a problem.

Bingo. First 20 "elements" are from a note that includes a Web clip and 1 attached file. The attachment is there. The other 19 are the usual sort of logos, stock photos, etc., you find on every Website. There are also svg_1 through svg_8, which display no preview or other information. There's a search feature, but it only searches filenames, not within OCRed attachments.

Suggestion: Ask the person who developed this feature to take the person who decided to color internal links blue out for lunch. Then lock the building.

58 minutes ago, fsigworth said:

I am a professor and use Evernote as a lab notebook, where I am keeping track of the steps in my data processing using the university's computer clusters.  These computers use the Linux operating system, which has lots of use of '/' to mark directories. It is a disaster now when I want to put in something like

cp ~/big_data_file.mrc tmp/archive/20240415/

and the text gets automatically converted to a TO-DO ITEM! I haven't found a good way to recover from this.

And, by the way, I also use the Terminal app on my Mac and have to deal with the same syntax.

This situation is entirely unacceptable. PLEASE allow us to turn this 'feature' off!

Meanwhile I'd really like to find an alternative to EverNote. Fellow users, do you have suggestions?

That's a really good, precise use situation in which the / popup is failing in its purpose. Sending it to feedback@evernote.com or https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/requests/new would be useful.

1 hour ago, CalS said:

It might also be good to recognize openly that bugs do exist in some use cases, sans excuses for BS.  There are folks who have made the transition to V10 reporting legitimate issues. Too often the response is "it works fine or me", which doesn't help if the use case is different.  Let BS represent themselves re how they will/are handling the issues.   🤷‍♂️

Hmm ... "bug" is hard to define precisely, or at least harder than it seems like it should be. "It works fine for me" in a different use case suggests that this is not a bug, but a different way of using the software (which doesn't work like it used to, and there we are again). "It works fine for me" on a different OS or hardware points more toward a genuine bug and a need for testing in more environments.

Thanks. That's definitely more space than what I see (also in v. 10.84.3; see screenshot below). I fear this may be another of the things they roll out to selected users at first. Supposedly that should be to collect feedback, and supposedly strong negative feedback should cause them to rethink it. Email feedback@evernote.com with your experiences and complaints. I'd avoid "You're completely destroying my work with this useless garbage" language and focus on facts and details. If you have any screenshots from an earlier time to put up next to the current ones, that would be the best way to make your point.

1 hour ago, bmcl26 said:

To provide some perspective on the price increases, I would like to share my experience. I was on the Plus plan and later upgraded to the Professional plan when it was introduced during my subscription year. I recall being charged an additional £25 for the remaining duration of my subscription. My plan renews annually on May 27th. Fortunately, the new price increases only applied to new subscribers from May 1st, 2023, and to existing subscribers from June 1st, 2023. This meant that I was able to enjoy another year at the usual price (£84.61 at the relative exchange rate last year), minus three days, which worked out to be 24p per day. I am set to renew on May 27th, and the current UK Professional Plan (Annual) costs £104.99, making my daily cost 29p. Despite the price increase, I believe that the plan still offers good value, considering the new features added over the past two years. It is worth noting that I was not on a grandfathered plan that was heavily discounted, which may have made a significant difference in price. 

That was basically my experience too, which is why I only just recently got The Email. This was the first time I really considered Evernote's cost/value ratio for my use -- which could indicate a number of things, including that it was underpriced previously, so I never gave it a thought, but now it's closer to what I need to think about before paying.

I finally got The Email a few days ago: the price for my Professional subscription will change to $169.99/year, an increase of $70. It came a month before my renewal date of May 11, so plenty of time to decide.

The new price is $14.17/month, $3.27/week, $0.47/day. My existing price is $8.33/month, $1.92/week, $0.27/day. 70% is a very steep rise, but the actual amounts match up well with what I myself get out of Evernote, esp. as some new features are being introduced (collapsible sections, links to sections of notes; not AI) that I will find useful. I'll also take time to compare the Professional plan and price with the Personal. The latter was updated, I think, and it might work for me to drop back to it.

@TracyB, I agree that this deeply annoying and unnecessary. As @gazumped says, nothing AI-related will be done if you choose not to do it. But since there's a whole other AI button on the toolbar; since the popup button occurs with seemingly random amounts/types of text selected; and since it serves not function if you know you don't want to AI it, there should be a way to turn it off. The reliable way to give this kind of feedback (poorly implemented features rather than actual bugs) is feedback@evernote.com. (Probably minus the "vigorous" language.)

But FWIW, I am able to work with the selected text as I desire. I can copy, cut, drag, format (with mouse or menu). Are you finding that the popup keeps you from doing that?

You're probably right, but we don't know whether Evernote staff read these forums regularly. They do receive feedback here: feedback@evernote.com. They don't respond meaningfully, but it's not meant to be a conversation starter, only an intake port.

On 4/13/2024 at 11:39 PM, Dynastar8 said:

So, we need additional software to fix the double spacing? 
It’s been really annoying all of a sudden. It takes way more space on the screen than it needs now. Double spacing or single spacing isn’t a fancy editing item it’s so simple. This needs a fix ASAP. 
 

Version 10.84.2 IOS 

I still haven't seen a screenshot here that looks anything like double spacing, maybe not even space-and-a-half. Please post if you've got something that looks like this.